The Best Book You’ve Never Read on Justification by Faith
If you disagree with the Protestant understanding of justification, then you owe it to yourself not to rest your case until you’ve reckoned with Owen.
If you disagree with the Protestant understanding of justification, then you owe it to yourself not to rest your case until you’ve reckoned with Owen.
J. I. Packer’s introduction to John Owen’s brilliant work, “The Death of Death in the Death of Christ,” is justly famous. For Packer, Owen reminds us of the glory of the “old gospel”: that Christ secured the salvation of sinners in dying for us.
The Puritans talk a lot about prayer—its theological underpinnings and practical importance—and there is much we can glean from them for our prayer lives today.
The idea that holiness leads to a drab life was utterly foreign to the Puritans—and should be foreign to us, too.
John Owen’s final word wasn’t about political, cultural, or temporal hope in this world, but about the glory of Christ which we’ll enjoy for eternity.